The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation